How to get a random one player from get children?
I'm creating a sort of admin script, and I need this function to get only one player.
for i,v in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
if v.Name:sub(1, #find) == find then
table.insert(players,v)
end
end
Ignore the second line for the most part, basically I get all the players, and then if someone does something like ;kill b it would find a player's name starting with b, but if multiple people's names began with b it would get them all. How do I after the second line pick only one of all the players, and if it's only one then just do it on them?
1 answer
It's actually pretty simple. Use math.random(). Basically, math.random() returns a random number in between 2 given numbers. You know how you can refer to a certain member of a table by using tablename[number]? Well with this, you just use tablename[math.random(1, #tablename)]. I'll add the part where it'll kill a random player to your script below.
for i,v in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
if v.Name:sub(1, #find) == find then
table.insert(players,v)
end
end
--part I added below
local player = players[math.random(1, #players)]
if workspace:FindFirstChild(player.Name) then
workspace:FindFirstChild(Player.Name).Humanoid:ChangeState(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Dead)
end
If it doesn't work, comment below and let me know if it returned any errors in the output.